UN Urges Aid to Horn of Africa ROME
, May 31 (AP) - The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization
has launched an appeal for $32.6 million to bring urgently
needed help to farmers and their families in Ethiopia, Eritrea,
Kenya, Somalia and Djibouti .....

Somali
warlords lose influence From
the newsroom of the BBC World Service (May 29) - President
Ismael Omar Guelleh of Djibouti, who is sponsoring a peace
conference on Somalia, says warlords can no longer impose
their will on Somali society .....

Belatwein
hit by Shabelle floodwaters MOGADISHU (May 23) IRIN - Some 2,400
people in 400 households in Belatwein, the capital of Hiran
region in central Somalia, have been displaced and their homes
put under floodwater ...

Polio
Vaccination Ends in Somalia Capital MOGADISHU
(May 23) XINHUA - UNICEF and WHO concluded their three-day
vaccination campaign against the Polio on Tuesday in the Somali
capital, which has no government for about .......

PLANNING TO EMIGRATE? DRESS UP May 18
(Bangkok Post - Thailand ) -Asad Osman Hassan Abdullahi is
a highly qualified Somali microbiologist who had all his papers
in order for emigrating from Yemen to New Zealand to take
up .....

Somali questions disallowed CALGARY,
May 18 (Edmonton Sun) - Patrick Ryan's defence lawyer was
shot down yesterday in a bid to quiz an elite Canadian soldier
about his role in the death of a Somali civilian seven years
ago .....

Somalia peace talks restart in Djibouti DJIBOUTI,
May 15 (AFP) - Talks aimed at ending nearly a decade of civil
war in Somalia have resumed near Djibouti, following a 10-day
break for informal consultations. .....

SOMALIA: Local journalists trained NAIROBI,
May 10 (IRIN-CEA) - A four-week training course for Somali
journalists, led by Maria Frauenrath, head of the BBC training
department, was completed last week .....

Somali
peace talks open in Djibouti ARTA, Djibouti,
May 2 (AFP) - Talks aimed at restoring peace in Somalia, which
has lacked a central government since 1991, opened here Tuesday
.....

Delegates arrive for Somali peace conference ARTA,
Djibouti, May 2 (BBC) - Somali delegates have started to arrive
in Djibouti in large numbers, ahead of tomorrow's national
reconciliation conference at a village Arta south of Djibouti.
.....

Somali
peace conference getting underway DJIBOUTI,
May 1 (BBC) - The Somali faction leader, Ali Mahdi Mohamed,
has arrived in Djibouti to take part in the national reconciliation
conference which is due to start tomorrow .....